Quotes by American Authors - Page 134

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
I find I'm luckier when I work harder.
Dr. Denton Cooley
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
Benjamin Franklin
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
Emily Dickinson
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chance favors those in motion.
Dr. James H. Austin
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.
Armand Hammer
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
Don Sutton
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Dianne Feinstein
I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
Martina Arroyo
The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.
James B. Hill
Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
Good luck needs no explanation.
Shirley Temple Black
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich
You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford
If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
Rosellen Brown
People make their own luck.
David Liederman
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
Anaïs Nin
The champion makes his own luck.
Red Blaik
I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.
Jerry Delia Femina
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Hannah Arendt
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
Merv Griffin
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.
John Jakes
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
Mark Twain
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
James Fixx
In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.
William E. Woodward
I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.
Mike Wallace
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
Some pray to marry the man they love My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
The hours I spent with thee dear heart Are as a string of pearls to me I could them over every one apart My rosary my rosary.
Robert Cameron Rogers
Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known So I turn the leaves of Fancy till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
James Whitcomb Riley
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would be loved love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.
Henry Carey
Our first and last love is - self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.
E.E. Cummings
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
James Thurber